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On Robillard′s Bounds for Ramsey Numbers

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 November 2018

J. G. Kalbfleisch
J. G. Kalbfleisch*
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University of Waterloo, Waterloo, Ontario
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A recent issue of the Bulletin contained a paper by Robillard [13] in which results from the theory of confounded factorial designs were used to obtain some lower bounds for Ramsey numbers. We shall derive, by more elementary methods, bounds which are much better than Robillard's in every example which he considered.

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Research Article
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Canadian Mathematical Bulletin , Volume 14 , Issue 3 , September 1971 , pp. 437 - 440
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Copyright © Canadian Mathematical Society 1971

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